Getting a Famicom-to-NES adapter in 5 easy steps

If you have any FC games but no FC to play them on, you probably want to get an
adapter to play them with.. unfortunately, they're not that easy to find. However, for
some reason (probably due to being rushed for the holiday season of 1985), Nintendo
made cart production easier by not making new NES cart boards, but by using the same
Famicom cart boards and simply fitting Famicom-to-NES adapters on them! Weird, eh?
Now, all you have to to is remove the adapter and you have your very own to use! Here's
how to do it:

1. Find a copy of Gyromite, Excitebike, Stack-Up, Hogan's Alley,
Urban Champion, or some other old Nintendo-made cart. The cart should
feel slightly heavier than a normal Game Pak; that's the tip-off that
there's an adapter inside.

A Gyromite cart, ripe for the picking

2. If you don't have the correct screwdriver to open up the cart, now
would be a good time to hold up someone who does and make him do
your bidding. Try entering the video game shoppe of your choice and
accosting the owner with your demand for him to open the cart for you.

3. Once you have someone else under your control and doing the job
for you, have him use the screwdriver to open up the NES cart. (If you
can't be bothered with leaving the house, call MCM Electronics at 1-800-543-4330
and order a 3.8mm security screwdriver bit, part number 22-1145. This is the bit
you use to open NES carts.)

Cigarette optional

Opened Gyromite cart, with Famicom board and Famicom-to-NES converter inside

4. After the cart is opened, look inside. What you may see (if you were right
about the cart being heaver) is a Famicom board.. attached to another board, with
a 72-pin output. This is the Famicom-to-NES adapter!

5. Be amazed at your discovery. Thank your accomplice for his time. Go
home and play all of your FC games. Yep, they all work with this adapter!

"Wow, now I don't have to buy an overpriced Honeybee adaptor
from some freak on a newsgroup!"